Louis Thomas Cholmondeley

Louis Thomas Cholmondeley (1665-) was a general of the Kingdom of France. Cholmondeley was appointed the commander of the French Army of Hanover in 1703 and served on the Rhine front during the War of the Spanish Succession.

Biography
Louis Thomas Cholmondeley was born in 1665 in Paris in the Kingdom of France. Cholmondeley enlisted in an infantry regiment during the War of the Grand Alliance, and he fought against the Imperial Habsburg forces on the Rhine. Cholmondeley was promoted to general in the summer of 1703 in the second year of the War of the Spanish Succession and took command of the Army of Hanover. The Army of Hanover's purpose was to march north through the French-occupied Spanish Netherlands and into the German state of Hanover, an ally of Great Britain, where the army would occupy the capital of Hanover and eradicate the British land threat. Next, the army would move south into Austrian Silesia alongside the Prussian Army and force the Austrian Empire to make peace. Cholmondeley's army grew to a large size, outfitted with cannon and cavalry in addition to the line infantry.